Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Water Quotes

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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